Beaumont's former Finger's Furniture store, which sat stagnant for decades on Seventh Street, has a bright future ahead with plans to become an industrial warehouse, bringing new investment to the area.

Investment was part of the Seventh Street warehouse's beginnings. The "giant sized" and "fabulous furniture showroom" opened in Beaumont in 1950, according to The Enterprise archives. It had previously had a smaller location in downtown Beaumont.

At the time of the larger store's opening in Beaumont, the Finger's Furniture warehouse was the "world's largest store on a one-floor level" with 68,000 square feet of floor space that was air conditioned and carpeted, surely a draw for the times.

In 1955, it was announced that the store would expand another 50,000 square feet to include an office supply division and a contracting department to furnish entire motels and hotels. But in July of 1982, it was announced that the store would close "to facilitate future growth of the company in Houston," according to The Enterprise archives.

The fate of the warehouse on Seventh Street hasn't looked better in the past few decades than it does now.